The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-07-07
GENERAL NEWS NOTEs.
Items OF Interest Gathered from VnrIof
Quarters.

Inc project 10 Dulld the mammoth cathtta
lral in New York is progressing slowly.
The strike at Rochester, N. Y, is d
,lared at an end.
Latin g. Rand's powder mill at Wayne
n. j. exploded at 8 o'clock Tuesday
Three men were killed.
Archbishop Walsh denies that he offcrd
my opposition to the Pope's purpose u
send Mgr. Persico on mission to lrelanq
Earthquake shocks were felt Thursdal
in New Hampshire and Vermont.
Deacon" Russell Sage gets more bed
gng letters than he can possibly find TIM
to read.
Jay GOuld's telegraph company owns
enough wire to stretch to the moon and
back.
Bill Springer says Dakota will be admit
ted to the union next year That settles it.
Dakota wont get It.
Richmond claims to be increasing its
population at the rate of $500 year. The
claim is modest and may be true
PATHS voice is said to DC failing. A
woman Of 4G can't be expected to preserve
the thrill of the nightingale.
The Cincinnati bank failure was such
gigantic fraud that the comptroller of the
currency has given it his personal attention.
Ex-Governor st. John is in New York,
waving the prohibition flag in the faces of
his foes.
The bullion withdrawn from the Bank
of England Wednesday (e50, ,O0W was for
shipment to New York.
OncfOurth Of the business part Of Eliza
bCthtown, Ky, was destroyed by fire on
Wednesday. Loss 100000.
Private Secretary Lamont is quoted as
saying that the Presidents cabin in the
Adirondacks cost him "only So day"
Queen Victoria has presented her royal
visitors with gold and their attendants with
silver medals.
August Bcrnung fatally shot himself and
wife III Louisville, Ky, last night. Jcal-
ousy. They had been married five months.
The President has appointed Joseph W.
Preston, Of Monticello, Ga, to be Indian
Agent at Mission Agency, in California
1t is stated at the White House that the
President has decided to attend the ccntcn-
NAL celebration at Clinton, NJ Y.
1t is estimated at the Treasury Depart
mcnt that the reduction Of the public debt
for June is about $15, 100000.
The Worcester Nlass.) Lastcrs' Union
has given up its struggle with the boot
manufacturers, and the trouble between
them is ilnlly ended
". J. Williams, treasurer Of ,JCrauld
county, Dakota, is reported missing. His
accounts arc short $4,000. IIc has been
gone Il week.
The Comptroller Of Currency has au-
thorized the Merchants National Bank of
Macon, Ga, 10 begin business with capi-
tai Of 500, 900.
Tie jury, in The trial of Jacob Sharpe.
i'll New York, charged with bribery, found
the defendant guilty. They were out only
thirteen minutes.
1t is reported that the rebellion against
the AmCcr in Afghanistan is cOllupsing and
that the Ghilzais are returning to their
homes.
The Russian Nihilists arc at work again.
No deep laid plot has been discovered, but
enough is known by the police to warrant
the assertion that they arc plotting.
A Portsmouth, Ohio, special says; An
excavation for a pile for South Shore rail
road bridge, three miles from here, cavcd
i'll, crushing six men to death.
MAsOns, helpers and lnborcrs employed
on sewers and street improvements in
Rochester, n. V, struck yesterday morn
ing Tor $l.I5 per day and of nine hours
work.
The tenants on the Kingston estate at
Alitchcllstown have resolved to resist The
service of Writs of eviction which il is pro.
posed to issue against them. OBricn will
shortly visit the tenants.
In ihc Criminal Court at Baltimore, yes.
tcrday, several judges and clerks of Ccc
lion were sentenced to two years impris-
| onmrnt for fraud praCtccd in the munici.
pal election.
King Milan, Of Scrvia. has instructed
Premier RiStics to take measures to pre-
vent the return Of Queen Natalie to Scrvia.
a Cabinet crisis is expected if the Premier
refuses to obey the King.
AT Lake Qunsigamond, Wednesday,
George Bubcar the champion oarsman of
England, beat James a. TcnEyckc thirteen
seconds in three mile race for 5000 q side.
Bubear's time was 2016!.
Tom King, colorcd, shot and instantly
killed his wife, at A3hcvillc. n. c., WcdncS-
day morning. lie says he was going hunt.
ing, and his gun went of accidentally.
| He was arrested.
&. w. Mccormick, a wealthy citizen Of
ThomasVtllc, Ga, recently presented the
pastor Of each church in that city with a
house and lot. Mr Mccormick is not Il
member Of any "L.rch himself
The families Of fifteen strikers at the
Pennsylvania Salt Works at National Pa,
were cvictcd by the sheriff and his dcpu.
ties Wednesday. The sheriff was iccrcd
by the strikers, but no resistance was
offered.
The Treasury Department decided that
imported COWS cannot be embraced in the
category of "houSchOld effects" and are
therefore, not entitled to free entry on the
ground that they arc to be kept for per
SOnal use.
The town Of NI0rshfcld, Wis, was swept
by fire on Monday afternoon. Two thou.
sand people are homeless, and the loss is cs
tmatcd at 81 ,0OO, COO. A fire at Hurley,
Wis, destroyed property worth 800, 600.
The action brought 10y the stockholders
OF the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad to break the lease of the road to
the Richmond and Danvillc Company has
been heard before Judge Roncy at Augusta.
VIM. NJ. Murphy, Nationalist member
OF Parliament, has commenced proceed.
ingS against the captain Of II. VI. $. Shan
non, for scizng his yacht in Bantry Bay
last week. because she carried a green flag.
Three large cotton mills at Manvilc, r,
l., have shut down indefinitely On account